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My ESX server just puked and I need to find where is the vm core dump file resides to figure out what happened?
Now I haven't performed all of these functions yet to test the validity but I found some different pieces of the puzzle for the post mordem.
Link
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1000328
1. Start with, from the service console, fdisk -l to find the VMware VMKCORE partition or type esxcfg-dumppart -l to show the active and configured Dump Partition.
2. vSphere 4 uses esxcfg-dumppart -L to display the log file.
(ESX 3 uses the vmkdump command instead)
Examples sites:
http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/tac0028.pdf
More to come...
My ESX server just puked and I need to find where is the vm core dump file resides to figure out what happened?
Now I haven't performed all of these functions yet to test the validity but I found some different pieces of the puzzle for the post mordem.
Link
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1000328
1. Start with, from the service console, fdisk -l to find the VMware VMKCORE partition or type esxcfg-dumppart -l to show the active and configured Dump Partition.
2. vSphere 4 uses esxcfg-dumppart -L to display the log file.
(ESX 3 uses the vmkdump command instead)
Examples sites:
http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/tac0028.pdf
More to come...
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